Do you like Fanica Luca Dan?
I think i come to plastic people next week!
― cherry blossom, Friday, 18 July 2008 00:11 (fifteen years ago) link
HOT MUSIC
― tricky, Friday, 18 July 2008 00:16 (fifteen years ago) link
wow
― tricky, Friday, 18 July 2008 00:22 (fifteen years ago) link
After all these years I finally fucking bought a copy of Concept 1.
― mehlt, Friday, 18 July 2008 02:20 (fifteen years ago) link
Daniel Wang rant has me hooked on Black Boots and Sine Waves.
― I know, right?, Friday, 18 July 2008 09:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Whoa. Listen to the "experimental dance track" on this page: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7512072.stm
by Delia Derbyshire, the BBC Radio Workshop programmer of the Dr. Who theme. I don't know if this is from the '60s or not, but if it is, it certainly complicates the question of techno's "origins." As a movement, it may have been born in Detroit, but this is further proof of the diverse array of the roots of the structure itself...
― pshrbrn, Friday, 18 July 2008 14:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Detroit biters, ripping off Derbyshire's soul.
Someone on DJ History has posted a d/lable version of this.
― Raw Patrick, Friday, 18 July 2008 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
not that we really needed it surely. cool stuff tho. xp
― blueski, Friday, 18 July 2008 14:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Wow, that is really cool. Delia's one of those pop mavericks I've never really explored properly. An interesting voice for sure. The little vocal snippet at the beginning is super cute.
― I know, right?, Friday, 18 July 2008 14:12 (fifteen years ago) link
got a link? i can't find that on djhistory...
― pshrbrn, Friday, 18 July 2008 14:32 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.djhistory.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36501
― braveclub, Friday, 18 July 2008 14:55 (fifteen years ago) link
oh fantastic!
― elan, Friday, 18 July 2008 15:35 (fifteen years ago) link
wow. that's terrific. thanks for sharing the link.
― brotherlovesdub, Friday, 18 July 2008 17:07 (fifteen years ago) link
I remember one of the booklets that came with those early 90s Volume compilations had a humourous article about origins of different electronic music genres, and the entry for "techno" read something like, "created while composing the soundtrack for the Original Dr Who series". I guess they weren't too far off.
― Tuomas, Friday, 18 July 2008 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
And of course the Dr. Who Theme is responsible for the B side on this. Which is surprisingly like you'd imagine it to sound like.
― mehlt, Friday, 18 July 2008 21:52 (fifteen years ago) link
Delia Derbyshire making loops on 4 reel to reel tapedecks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDX_CS3NsTk
From her obiturary: "What we are doing now is not important for itself, but one day someone might be interested enough to carry things forwards and create something wonderful on these foundations."
― good dog, Saturday, 19 July 2008 14:23 (fifteen years ago) link
-- mehlt, Friday, 18 July 2008 02:20 (3 days ago) Link
How was I to know there were TWO different versions of this, and alas, I got the richie one not the brinkmann one I wanted :( Had I known I'd have gotten the remaster which has them both anyways.
In other news, after seeing Mossa's live set at Mutek, I spent weeks trying to find out what this track was (in awe of the fact that in 08 he could make such a great sounding 90's pop-house epic). Only yesterday I discovered it was in fact produced by Louis Vega in '93. What relevance this has, I don't know, but I've been listening to it since.
― mehlt, Monday, 21 July 2008 01:03 (fifteen years ago) link
* great 90's pop-house sounding
― mehlt, Monday, 21 July 2008 01:04 (fifteen years ago) link
xpost. Not to mention this CD is in good need of a remaster.
― mehlt, Monday, 21 July 2008 01:56 (fifteen years ago) link
How was I to know there were TWO different versions of this, and alas, I got the richie one not the brinkmann one I wanted :( Had I known I'd have gotten the remaster which has them both anyways
the brinkmann one is quite boring.
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 21 July 2008 03:55 (fifteen years ago) link
if i had to pick one to keep, i'd keep hawtin's
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 21 July 2008 03:56 (fifteen years ago) link
that deep inside is a barbara tucker vocal i believe
that song would be great even if it didn't have the drums - the bassline and vocals would suffice
― elan, Monday, 21 July 2008 04:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Yep, that Hardrive is a classic mehlt. I'm sure you've discovered this by now, but it was repressed last year: http://www.discogs.com/release/992839
― matt2, Monday, 21 July 2008 04:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Hmmmn.
How about this?
must buy or passable?
I've listened to the Carl Craig remix, which is good, albeit could benefit from being shortened by about 40-50% or so.
― mehlt, Monday, 21 July 2008 04:43 (fifteen years ago) link
MUST BUY
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 21 July 2008 05:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh, I fucking BOUGHT the Deep Inside remix 12" and it was kind of ill, and on a drunken night, it got mixed up in all my friend's records, and I haven't been able to find it! Such a bummer.
Also, bought Playboy's "In Da Jungle" on vinyl-- should be arriving in the mail soon. Excited about that one.
― the table is the table, Monday, 21 July 2008 06:00 (fifteen years ago) link
is that the one that goes "deep deep in the jungle ... the drums"
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 21 July 2008 06:22 (fifteen years ago) link
I got the remix of it off your blog, yeah, it's a certified banger.
xxpost: will do.
― mehlt, Monday, 21 July 2008 19:42 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah moonship, that one.
― the table is the table, Monday, 21 July 2008 19:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Playboy just arrived, and it is some of the heaviest shit I've heard in a while. The original is floor-shaking, and the 'Outside Expedition' mix is totally wild tribal techno. Also, the Modwheel Safari remix that I posted from the blog just goes into a locked groove of birds and animals at the end. Excellent.
― the table is the table, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 22:28 (fifteen years ago) link
/MUST BUY
-- moonship journey to baja, Monday, July 21, 2008 12:26 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Link
Very good call!
― mehlt, Wednesday, 30 July 2008 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Also, found that Hardrive 12" yesterday-- "Stormy Weather" remix of "Deep Inside" is awesome, deep and techy...other two? not so much.
― the table is the table, Thursday, 31 July 2008 16:54 (fifteen years ago) link
Hooray. I found myself a copy of this today. So that's something for me. Also, the record store had a copy of promised land by Joe Smooth in, but it was the album and not the 12" single (with full length mix of namesake track), but it was a bit too $ for me, alas.
― mehlt, Thursday, 31 July 2008 22:56 (fifteen years ago) link
Also can I get a S/D on what for lack of a more descriptive term I will call 'monologue house'. Not just vocal (read proper singing and rhyming and all, or hip-house). Stuff in the vein of Le Roi and Roland Clarke - Get Deep. Old or new. *I heard a track out a few weeks ago that was great, but can't at all remember how it went, a guy with a kind of slurry delivery not too unlike eric sermon, said something about brooklyn, and at some point answered a cell phone (which I guess means probably from 00's) and laughed. Anyone have an idea what that track is?
― mehlt, Tuesday, 12 August 2008 23:14 (fifteen years ago) link
Armando--"Don't take it", has an awesome female vocal monologue thing about how "this is the eighties" and women can be whatever they want and don't have to let men walk all over them.
― saudade, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 19:28 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^^^^^^^ yeah this is great. i heard it at gramaphone the other day have and have never been so mad at myself for being out of a job
― deej, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 20:25 (fifteen years ago) link
(its expensive)
― deej, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 20:26 (fifteen years ago) link
This is also very worth your while, and likely much cheaper:
http://www.discogs.com/release/1137957
I also picked up a boot with a pretty killer re-edit of Downfall last weekend. I don't have a discogs link at the moment.
― Display Name, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 20:32 (fifteen years ago) link
that's the record they're talking about. it's for sale for less than $10 on that site.
― elan, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 21:05 (fifteen years ago) link
gramaphone is overcharging >:(
― deej, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 21:35 (fifteen years ago) link
a better armando monologue track is "world unknown (md house mixx)", from the land of confusion remix record.
― elan, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 21:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Thanks!
Armando has seriously been just kicking my ass in the last few weeks.
― mehlt, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 21:43 (fifteen years ago) link
It is a shame he dies so young, he was only 26. No one really works a 707 like he does, the only guy who took it further was Larry Heard.
― Display Name, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 22:19 (fifteen years ago) link
i went through my armando discovery period beginning last year this time and he spent like nine months as my absolute favorite house producer. you should definitely check out this hip-house track he did as the chicago bad boy. like most hip-house, the mc is no rakim allah, but it's got a MURDEROUS bassline that everyone will rock to, and then the synthesizer begins... house music all night long!
house music all night long (armando's club mix) feat. gershon jackson: http://www.sendspace.com/file/wmj78l
― elan, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 22:54 (fifteen years ago) link
A few more Monologue House Picks:
Bobby Kondors - The Poem Project 86 - Legends Marshall Jefferson vs Noosa Heads - Mushrooms (Salt City Orchestra Mix) Derrick Carter - Where U At? (and it's various versions/derivations)
― Tim F, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 23:00 (fifteen years ago) link
armando's music is criminally hard to find though. he made 4 lps for trax in the 90s that are out of print and offline. as far as i can tell, they're only available on some dodgy russian mp3 sites, if you have a credit card you don't mind canceling immediately after use. if not, you might be able to find the trax classix cd sampler on slsk. there is still a whole lot of his catalogue that i'm still searching after though.
― elan, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 23:00 (fifteen years ago) link
Shackleton feat. Jackson del Rey "Next to Nothing" has a pretty good monologue, although it's not that far in the past and isn't house music. It's a creepy song though.
― saudade, Thursday, 14 August 2008 00:47 (fifteen years ago) link
romanthony - the wanderer
― blunt, Thursday, 14 August 2008 01:29 (fifteen years ago) link
Sweet Pussy Pauline is one of the ultimate house monologues. Josh Wink's version of that track is a killer (can't seem to find it on discogs unfortunately).
― Romeo Jones, Thursday, 14 August 2008 01:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I am loving this right now: http://www.discogs.com/release/1021610
― Display Name, Monday, 18 August 2008 19:03 (fifteen years ago) link